Remove 2002 Remove Gasoline Remove MPG Remove Toyota
article thumbnail

The BMW-sourced 1.6L diesel in the Toyota Verso

Green Car Congress

The enhanced 2014 Toyota Verso features an expanded engine line-up which introduces a new 1.6 Since the initial launch of the European market Verso in 2002, cumulative sales have risen to more than 700,000 units. D-4D is mated to a Toyota 6-speed gearbox. l/100 km (52 mpg US) in the combined homologation cycle.

Toyota 246
article thumbnail

Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic).

VUE 92
article thumbnail

2014 Toyota Verso offering new 1.6L diesel from BMW, first stop/start system

Green Car Congress

Toyota first introduced the Verso in 2002, and in 2013, launched the current Verso MPV, developed exclusively for the European market. The 2014 Verso now features an expanded powertrain line-up of 4 diesel and 2 gasoline engines which introduces a new 1.6 mpg US) in the combined homologation cycle. The new 1.6

2014 220
article thumbnail

Chevy Cruze diesel’s variable-swirl mechanism

Green Car Congress

Optimizing swirl speed depending upon the engine operating condition is an effective means to increase thermal efficiency and reduce emissions, Toyota researchers noted in a paper in the R&D Review of Toyota CRDL in 2002. Cruze’s diesel offers a segment-leading EPA-estimated 46 mpg highway (5.1

2000 247
article thumbnail

BMW H2 BS

Plugs and Cars

Especially a super luxury car that switches to gasoline with the flick of a finger. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600. But of course he's been hydrogen's biggest booster, despite its inefficiencies and impracticalities.

BMW 100
article thumbnail

News: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV

Clean Fleet Report

MPGe fuel economy is rated at 61 mpg city/52 highway/57 combined using the electric battery and compressed hydrogen fuel. MPGe is a measurement of how far a car can travel electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in 1 gallon of gasoline. Hydrogen prices fluctuate in a broader range than gasoline or electricity.

Honda 70
article thumbnail

Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How does this sound: 100+ MPG in a regular vehicle? Scientist have confirmed that unlike gasoline cars, plug-ins will get cleaner as they get older -- because our power grid is getting cleaner. 2 Plug-in hybrids are cleaner 3 Plug-in hybrids are cheaper 4 Plug-in hybrids are domestic 5 Plug-in hybrids already exist 1.

Plug-in 61